Toy pail



' (Modem E. ALDOM.

Toy Pan. No. 238,479. Patentedwlarch 8,1881.

l-flgure UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD ALDOM, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TOY PAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,479, dated March 8, 1881.

Application led May 13, 1880. (Model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD ALDOM, of' the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toy- Molding Apparatus, )f which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in i that class of toy pails used extensively at the seashore resorts during the summer season.

The object of my invention is to instruct and amuse chi1dren,while playing in the sand with pail and shovel,by molding or forming letters, medallions, and other figures on or in the forms made.

Figure l is a perspective View, the side partly cut away. Fig. 2 is a view of the bottom of the pail. Fig. 3 is a top view of one of the forms molded in the pail when turned out, showing the letters and other figures impressed in or ou the sand or other substances used.

I construct my pails in the usual form of toy pails, as shown at Fig. 1. I make them of wood, papier-mache, metal, or other suitable material. I attach to the bottom of the pail, inside, the letters and figures to be impressed on the sand or other substances to be molded, as shown at A, Fig. 2. The letters and gures to be impressed on the sand or other substance can be impressed, stamped, or molded in the bottom, and form a part of the bottom of the pail, as shown at Fig. 2.

A separate piece can be used in the bottom ofthe pail, with the gures and letters either stamped or cast on it,with either raised or depressedl letters and figures. This piece being loose, any number of such pieces can be used in the same pail, each piece having a different design on it.

To use my invention, pla-ce in the pail the sand or other substance to be molded or formed, and press it down so as to make it compact, then turn the pail upside down, and deposit the contents in a molded form in any convenient place. The gures and letters will `be clearly seen on the molded form,'as shown in Fig. 3.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv As a new article of manufacture, a toy-molding apparatus, consisting of a pail with gures or letters attached to or impressed in the bottom, forming a part ofthev bottom, and adapted to make impressions in sand, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

EDWARD ALDOM.

Witnesses:

S. T.I MGDOUGALL, H. A. SMITH. 

